This work is self-motivated and self-funded. If you watch/listen to this work all we ask in return is that you leave a comment at the bottom of this page stating where in the world you experienced it so we can attempt to track how far it reverberates. Thanks!
Terrible Karma is a mobile sound and photographic installation exploring the global reverberations of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, on its 100th anniversary.
Terrible Karma works from the premise that 'sound is haunting… a presence whose location in space is ambiguous and whose existence in time is transitory' (David Toop), meshing oral histories of Triangle fire survivors with audio recordings of mega-scale garment factories in Qingyuan, China and protest songs of present-day garment workers in Bangladesh and Cambodia to invoke the contemporary and transnational resonances of the Triangle fire.
The title – Terrible Karma – refers to both the title of a protest song sung by Cambodian female garment workers at a union rally in Phnom Penh (July 2010 – click for translation) and to the idea that events of the garment industry past continue to haunt the present, that injustice unresolved always comes back. The work arises out of our mutual desire to mark the centenary of the Triangle factory fire whilst also exploring the constraints and conditions in which garment workers continue to work, live and die.
The work 'takes to the streets' on March 25th, 2011 when the sounds and photographs it presents will be projected out of a van driven through the streets of New York, stopping at various points to allow passers-by to experience the work from inside its claustrophobic confines.
Adeola and I will be out this Friday morning and afternoon (10-2) in downtown Manhattan, at Cooper Square, and near the location of the fire, at Washington Place and Greene Street. Follow the path on the map, and look out for our UHAUL truck, containing the audio-visual installation above. If you're in town, drop by and spend some time in the back of the truck, feeling the reverberations of the fire, 100 years later.
For those not in NY the work is available to experience by watching the online version of the work posted above (to get the best effect play it full-screen by clicking on the icon between the HD and vimeo symbols on the bottom right of the screen).
N.B. This work is self-motivated and self-funded. If you watch/listen to this work all we ask in return is that you leave a comment at the bottom of this page stating where in the world you experienced it so we can attempt to track how far it reverberates. Thanks!
Special thanks are due to Matthias Kispert, Jean Marshall, Gearóid Dolan and Will Zimmermann for helping us to make this happen.
1.5 billion garments are sewn by an estimated 40 million people working in 250,000 factories across countries designated by the UN as the world's least developed. This army is the engine for the Cut Make Trim (CMT) part of fashion: the point in the fashion chain where the garment is assembled and sewn. Life in the CMT army is grim, particularly in Bangladesh. A report last year by the International Trade Union Confederation gave workers there the inauspicious title of "most poorly paid in the world". The job of a garment worker is also very dangerous. On the 14th of December 2010 a fire broke out at the That's It Sportswear factory, in Ashulia, Dhaka, killing at least 29 workers and injuring 100 more. The facility is run by one of Bangladesh's biggest garment export companies, Ha-Meem, and produces for global retailers including Gap.
See also this documentary – Struggling to Stitch – produced by Nadia Sussman which takes a look look inside New York's contemporary garment industry, where day laborers are hard pressed to find paying jobs.
Terrible Karma is a mobile sound and photographic installation exploring the transnational reverberations of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, on its 100th anniversary. Terrible Karma works from the premise that 'sound is haunting… a presence whose location in space is ambiguous and whose existence in time is transitory' (David Toop), meshing oral histories of Triangle fire survivors with audio recordings of mega-scale garment factories in Qingyuan, China and protest songs of present-day garment workers in Bangladesh and Cambodia to invoke the contemporary and transnational resonances of the Triangle fire.
The work 'takes to the streets' on March 25th, 2011 when the sound and photographs will be projected out of a van driven through the streets of New York, stopping at various points to allow passers-by to experience the work from inside the claustrophobic confines of the van. Terrible Karma presents spaces and times as folded, allowing distant presences, events, and people to become more intimate and the contemporary resonances of the Triangle Fire to reverberate. This event, which mingles sounds and voices from different times and places, is not simply a memorial for the women killed in the New York factory fire, but an exploration of the constraints and conditions in which women continue to work, live and die.
Urban areas like New York, Qingyuan, Dhaka and Phnom Penh fold into each other as we trace the rhythm of the needle's stitch over a century. The work follows that rhythm, in its benign existence as women's work, until the intensity of repetition, of needle-piercing-cloth catches fire. It is this repetitive quality—of machine rhythms, of movement circumscribed, of fire, of no escape—that we draw upon to create a space where interactivity with the spectral might occur.
Adeola and Merle met at the workshop Experimenting with Geography: See, Hear, Make-Do at the University of Edinburgh, May 3rd-7th 2010. This week-long international training school was dedicated to developing a diverse range of craft skills associated with audio, visual and site-specific methodologies and involved hands-on practical workshops led by leading creative practitioners from the sonic and visual arts. On meeting and realizing the affinities of their research interests and creative practices they decided that they wanted to collaborate on a project and Terrible Karma was set in motion.
Dr Merle Patchett is a cultural geographer and freelance curator. Her past four years of research were dedicated to the exploration of human and animal lives connected through the cultural practice of taxidermy, and wholly funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. This project critically examined the craft worlds and knowledge-practices of taxidermists, past and present, and their material culture of animal remains. To date, she has published on this research in international peer-reviewed journals and has been a co-curator of taxidermy artwork exhibitions at the Hunterian Museum, Glasgow.
Merle is presently based in Edmonton where she is developing a creative practice as an 'experimental geographer', part of which includes curating the forthcoming exhibition Fashioning Feathers: Dead Birds, Millinery Crafts and the Plumage Trade (www.fashioningfeathers.com) in association with the Material Culture Institute, University of Alberta.
 The final fatality list has still not been fully disclosed.
I will be coordinating some conferences of labor historians and activists from out of town. Can you let me know where and when you will be driving and projecting your sound and images so that my group can be sure to see it?
Adeola and I would love for you to experience the work. We haven't quite finalized the route yet but will probably set out from the Cooper Union Building as this is where the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union gathered to discuss general strike action or set out from when they marched.
All the details will be posted on this blog and at http://rememberthetrianglefire.org/ but if you would like to email me so that I can send you the details personally here is my email address: merle44@hotmail.com.
Reverberations in Manchester, UK, which I suppose is the prologue to this ongoing story.
I experienced this in Edmonton…..
The "Struggling to Stitch" documentary is a powerful piece. An example of the really interesting video journalism being produced by the New York Times.
thank you for sharing these haunting yet touching stories, sounds and images….
experienced in Edmonton…would have loved to experienced on the streets of NY!
Congratulations Merle – This installation acts as a powerful resistance against the quick to forget and an even more powerful visioning of the unseen and invisible. Tarrying at the fabric of oppression and emergent women's action, Terrible Karma serves as a relief gathered across a century. The fabric now pulled together to speak to a new generation becoming ever more aware of the haunting nature of human life existing at the margins.
The finished video comes off clear with purpose. Saw this in Edmonton, Alberta – so I hope all goes well in New York.
Best Wishes from Pitlochry SCOTLAND!
An effective and haunting memorial with a very important modern-day resonance, representing thousands of women around the world across the century. Watched and admired in London, UK.
Really powerful footage and fantastic project – While unable to use this today, The footage has been referenced and used with international students studying an applied humanities geography course at UCL, London. It has enriched our studies into geographies of power, capitalism, and alternatives which we have been exploring these past couple of weeks and has proven a potent event (the events themselves and your 'terrible karma' reverberations). Keep up the thoughtful geographical experimentals. All best to you today with your travels around NYC. Jo.
I watched it in Edinburgh's Central Library. I found the experience as interesting as the premise and that is not always the case with me and installation pieces. It was haunting and I'm still pausing for thought an hour later. I hope it gets a permanent place in a peoples museum somewhere.
Thank you for your work. I'm the author of a collection of poetry about coal mining in the southern fields of Colorado and the Ludlow Massacre (Trembling in the Bones).
Reverberations from Mar del Plata, Argentina.
Great job, thanks for your dedication! Looking forward to some some collaborative stuff soon.
Very imaginative use of a mobile space that reaches those in the inner cityscape. I experienced this in Edmonton.
This is thought provoking work and made me think what I am wearing, where it comes from, and how it was made. It is a calm piece, drawing you in, but leaving images I think will stick. Yes, you need the full screen to see the details of the photographs used. The title makes itself clear at the end, rewarding full attention. It was helpful to see the other video too.
If you don't know it already, you might be interested in these links. There was an exhibition at Iniva in London covering similar themes. Not the fires so much as conditions of labour, consequences of globalisation.
Where I live in Scotland, there are still some niche work, making cashmere jumpers for the high end fashion trade. I was privileged to spend a couple of days in the factory, drawing what was going on and seing incredible skill with which the employees worked. Many special words, a proud tradition.
Not like your documentation at all – more celebratory. A very different thing to the unionised day labourers' experience. Mind you, the workers in that factory are very aware that they are one of the last places still open. Also there are questions about the cashmere, its provenance. I was approaching it from the idea of the animal becoming wool.
It seems to me it's best just to get what you need clothes-wise, good quality as you can, fair-trade – are you interested also in documenting models of ethical practice and consumption?
Thank you very much for your work. Look forward to seeing how the thread develops.
Dear Merle and Adeola, I'm so very pleased that my translation of the Cambodian unionists song "terrible karma" was helpful to you in the production of this amazing-looking work of art/action/mobile education station/commemoration (!). Your take on the relationship between the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire 100 years ago and the ongoing factory fires throughout the world is dead-on – as a global humanity, we remain haunted by the crimes and behavior of those who feel that murder can be moved without repercussion. You probably know that one of the owners of the Triangle factory was found locking his workers into a different factory less than a year later.
These workers are the courageous people whose self-organization and actions in their own defense (quite often, literally physical self-defense) are my heroes, and I'm extremely impressed by your actions in support of them.
This is extremely touching. Thank you for sharing it. I wish you well in your project.
Stumbled on this doing research for methods of geography presentation. What a moving way to display knowledge and research injecting creativity into the field.


In this two part tutorial you will see how easy it is to create a basic web service using Xojo Web. In the second part, we will create a Desktop client to talk with the web service (you may want to add iOS to the list).
Before we start, let me point out that this tutorial leaves out some details related to error checking, validation, data sanitizing and other specifics related to inputs and outputs in order to focus on the central topic. In addition, if you want to follow and reproduce the steps of this tutorial, then you need to download the Chinook Database, named "test.sqlite" in this tutorial.
Let's start creating a web service! Open the Xojo IDE, create a new Web project, and name it WebService. The first thing you'll notice is that Xojo adds a web page to the project by default – even when our web service does not display a UI. The good part is that you can mix both worlds, adding the webservice part to your regular Web app!.
if database.Error then MsgBox "Error connecting to the database"
As you can see, it is pretty much the same code we already use when creating SQLiteDatabase instances in our Desktop apps, linking to our SQLite database file and stablishing the connection so we can operate with the database engine from our app.
Xojo Web projects offer two ways to handle the request received. The first is using the HandleURL event. This is the one that fires every time a client app (it may be a Web Browser, desktop or mobile app) connects to the URL associated with the IP address and port combination that is listening for incoming requests. If we were writing a Web App, then this would be the event we would use to attend, process and send the requested web pages, for example.
However, for web services we need to add the HandleSpecialURLevent to our project. The main difference is that, in this case, we can use typical URL signatures when its about talk with web APIs, where the methods (i.e, the requested action by the clients or API consumers) is part of the URL itself. The unique consideration is that these URL need to include the word Special or API as part of their URL path. In addition, this is the event that will allow our Web apps to attend and process the callbacks from other external web services, as could be PayPal, for example.
Where getCustimers is in this case one of our API methods.
As we will see, once the event has been added to a web app, it will receive the Request parameter (a WebRequest data type), waiting from us to send back a Boolean value as response: True to process the request or False (the default value) to ignore the response.
Introducing Request, where the information lives!
The Request.Path property will return the getCustomers string; so our web service can process it acordingly from this point on.
In order to keep this tutorial brief, our web API only has two methods in it: GetAll and AddAlbum. Using the first one, the client app will get the album name in the database wrapped in JSON format. With the second method, our client app will ask the web service to add a new record (a new album) to the right table on our example database.
How can we process the request associated data inside the HandleSpecialURL event? Here is where we will find very useful another of the Request object properties. The Entity property includes the sent data as part of the request that are not already present in the headers. Generally speaking, it includes additional data via the PUT and POST verbs.
The main point here is that we assign the received data to the data variable (if any), and define a known encoding to them so we won't get into trouble while processing them afterwards. Of course, our example always expects to receive the additional data in JSON format, so this is why we create a new JSON instance from this data.
We use the Select…Case command to decide what method has to execute the web service, and that is based on the component stored in the Path property as you recall. So, if the request uses the GetAll method in the URL, we will call the real method GetAllAlbums in our Xojo code. After processing the information it will return a new JSONItem as the response we will send to the client.
How can we send the response to the request? Really simple: calling the Print method on the received request, passing as parameter the text we want to send back. In our example, this is the JSONItem referenced by the Output variable.
If we receive a request with the AddAlbum method of our API, then we call the real addNewAlbum method in our Xojo code, passing as parameter the JSONItem object in charge of store the received data from the request (this is the one referenced by the input variable). In fact, the record structure is stored inside the newAlbum root node of the JSONItem.
While not rc.EOF // so lets iterate them!
item.Value(rc.field("albumid").StringValue) = d // You know you can assign a Dictionary as the value for a JSONItem node. Very useful!
As you can see, the code is very simple (and dangerous in a real world app — prepared statements should instead be used!): it gets the values for the received keys in the JSONitem nodes and uses them as part of the SQL sentence in order to add a new record to the database.
A Web service… ready to serve!
As you have seen, the code and app structure are really minimal! Of course, this is just a simple example but it gives you a good idea of the kind of possibilities web services offer and how fast you can put it together using Xojo and OOP concepts you already know! Of course, you can run your web app (and services) right from the IDE… what is probably the recommended way to follow this simple example. For other more complex web apps, remember that you can use the one click solution Xojo Cloud and of course any compatible Linux, Windows or Mac server.


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Posted by Ed Mortimer in Uncategorized.	Tagged: children, economics, ethics, global, history, justice, media, philosophy, politics, rights, sovereignty, women.	1 comment
About 200 people in Boston express their outrage at America's economic woes – and promise to take up the protest baton
Posted 28 September 2011, by Paul Harris, The Guardian, guardian.co.uk
There were socialists, anti-poverty campaigners, students, anarchists, computer hackers, the unemployed, and workers ranging from a vet to an accountant.
And, numbering around 200 and meeting to plot until late in the night, a group of Bostonians have decided to recreate the anti-Wall Street protests that are gripping New York.
Unlike previous attempts, such as a march that fizzled out in Chicago with just 20 people, the people behind Occupy Boston showed a strong dose of media savvy and organizational skill on Monday night, as they drew a committed crowd of volunteers to their cause: to occupy a slice of the city. Local TV crews were in attendance at the evening mass planning meeting, and it had been flagged on the front pages of Boston's newspapers.
The move raises the first serious prospect of the Wall Street protests spreading beyond New York and comes as other events are also being planned in Los Angeles and Washington.
Organiser Marissa Egerstrom addresses the Boston general assembly
The crowd of Bostonians listened and spoke about their anger at the ills in the capitalist system in general and the financial industry in particular.
Gathering in the center of Boston Common, in the heart of the city, they heard various speakers promise to copy the New York protests. "Tonight we begin to show the world how to live in freedom and peace. Right here, right now, a new life is starting," said Marissa Egerstrom, one of the organizing forces behind Occupy Boston.
Those were big words to say in front of just 200 people. But Occupy Boston aims to emulate Occupy Wall Street protesters, whose seizure of a downtown Manhattan park was first ignored by most of the media but has now generated headlines around the world, especially after police used pepper spray against peaceful women demonstrators.
Matthew Krawitz explains why he is joining the Boston protest
Many of those gathered on the Common, including nearly all the key organizers, had been to New York to witness the protests. One organizer, Matthew Krawitz, who brought his two daughters to the Common, had been in Manhattan for the first day of the protests there. Now the unemployed IT expert was helping set up something similar in Boston. "I'm here to give them a better future," he said, referring to his two children.
In style and substance, Occupy Boston closely followed that of Occupy Wall Street, which was itself inspired by recent social movements in Spain and Arab countries. After the speeches different tactical groups were formed – covering everything from legal affairs to food to medical to media outreach – to prepare for the coming occupation.
Potential sites to be occupied included the Common itself and Dewey Square in Boston's financial district. Potential dates were also picked, with some as soon as this coming weekend. The separate groups operated in a "leaderless" style that dragged on in often circular debates but were impressive for eventually coming to collective agreement.
The meetings lasted for several hours in the park, as crowds listened to rabble-rousing speeches and critiques of capitalism. It promised a striking protest to come, but at times offered an incongruous vision of Boston. Ringing the common where the protesters met are some of the most upmarket streets in the city, lined with million-dollar townhouses. And on the park itself, virtually next door to where scores of people talked of forcefully bringing down American capitalism, fellow Bostonians enjoyed games of tennis on brightly lit late-night courts, seemingly oblivious to what was going on in the darkness just 50 yards away.
But what was never in doubt among the disparate participants was a sense of outrage and injustice at America's current economic woes. Bob Norkus, 54, had been out of work for a year. He has one simple desire. "Things need to be realigned. It's 99 percent of us versus one percent of them. This is still a democracy if we care to grab it," he said.
There were people with jobs in the crowd, too, and they were equally angry. Cynthia Brennan, 41, is a veterinary nurse. She had been inspired to come to the common by watching the popular revolts of the Arab Spring. "I was fascinated by Egypt. I was in front of al-Jazeera all the time. It needs to happen here," she said.
Local government accountant Tim Larkin, 28, agreed. But he wanted to improve on the New York protests in Boston. "We have to be better than New York and have a stronger set of demands," he said.
© Guardian News and Media Limited 2011
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/sep/28/occupy-boston-wall-street
Posted by Ed Mortimer in Uncategorized.	Tagged: corporate, ethics, global, justice, philosophy, politics, rights, sovereignty.	2 comments
Posted 27 September 2011, by , Occupy Wall Street, occupywallst.org
This is the eleventh communiqué from the 99 percent. We are occupying Wall Street. We will not be moved.
On September 27th, 2011, many friends participated in our democratic process.
We are seeing change in our world, block by block – city by city.
Join our conversation.
https://occupywallst.org/article/day-eleven/
Posted by Ed Mortimer in Uncategorized.	Tagged: corporate, economics, ethics, global, justice, media, philosophy, politics, sociology, spirituality.	Leave a comment
Posted27 September 2011, byEdward Champion, Reluctant Habits, edrants.com
Please visit the original site to listen to multiple audio tracks (the conversations and the song) associated with this article
On Tuesday afternoon, I discovered this report from NPR Ombudsman Edward Schumacher-Matos. NPR hadn't aired a single story in relation to the Occupy Wall Street riots, which I had reported about on Sunday in relation to the pepper spraying incident. I decided to walk across the Brooklyn Bridge and attend the protests myself. What follows are nine conversations I had with various individuals at the protests.
Douglas: "I'm here because I'm American. I was born here in New York. I was born here in Manhattan."
Jeff and Miike came from Colorado.
Miike: "We came on Sunday specifically for this. And we decided we wanted to come down for the week also."
Jeff: "We had already planned a trip to New York. And then they were talking about it on the radio station that I listen to in Denver. And they were saying there's a total media blackout on this whole thing. And so I said I'm going to go down there. I called them up and said I'm going to go down there."
Dorjee: "I hope it brings it down completely and we get a completely new system of human respect with viable resources and fair trade, instead of I lend you. You, you need a thousand dollars. Okay, I'll give you a thousand dollars if you pay me back $1,000 plus $200."
Me to Dorjee: "Be careful with that fist. Because you're trying to be peaceful, right?"
Marvin was holding a sign that read JESUS IS NOT FOR CORPORATE GREED. What will the protest actually do?
Marvin: "It will make people more aware that we live in a capitalist system where more people are living in poverty than ever. And the most ironic part of it is that it's a capitalist system, but we live off the Communists. We have to borrow money from Communists to even exist."
Mary was a tourist who had stopped by Liberty Square on the last day of her vacation.
Mary: "I'm surprised it hasn't happened earlier. Now it has. I started following it on Twitter. And then I thought I'd come down and see what was happening."
Ed and Robin came to the protests all the way from West Virginia.
Robin: "The corporations have done a great job in dividing people, separating people into issues. People are coming together here and realizing that we have much more in common with each other than we do with the people who are trying to sell us on what a good way of life is here."
Ed and Robin were also kind enough to perform their song "Let 'Em Eat Cake" for me. Here is Uncle Eddie & Robin's website.
Roman carried a sign calling for President Paris Hilton and had some unusual ideas about making sex appeal a more predominant characteristic than others.
Roman: "I'm an aspiring, you know, Paris Hilton. I want to just be able to live and party. I live with my parents right now but we don't have much money. And I think that if Paris Hilton becomes President, you know, she can help everybody just party."
Brian worked very close to Liberty Square. He was checking out the protests on his lunch break.
Brian: "This is funny anyway. [indicating sign] I mean, who hasn't tried to go to school looking for a job when they first get out of school. I mean, that's what we all do. It's hard to find a job. But, like anything, you continue to look and try until you find one and do what most of us have done."
[EDITORIAL NOTE: Please note that an earlier version of this story misidentified the "Steven Levy" as "Wired senior writer Steven Levy." Reluctant Habits expresses its apologies to Wired's Steven Levy and greatly regrets the error.]
As I was circling Liberty Square and talking with many people about what it meant to protest, I observed an older man berating a young man going by the name of Matt. It was the only contentious banter I had observed in what was otherwise a peaceful gathering — complete with donated food, plentiful signs laid along the ground, activists singing protest songs on banjos and guitars, and even a library established in close proximity to the main dais.
I was curious about what had caused this older man to lose his gasket. Because while I had talked with people who did not approve of the protest (including some cops who declined to go on the record, but all NYPD officers I observed were calm and professional), the older man was the only one prepared to go ballistic. This being a public space, I naturally began recording audio and approached the shrieking man, hoping that I might use this moment to generate a civil discussion. But the man, who identified himself as "Steven Levy" (not to be confused with the Wired senior writer) wasn't especially interested in explaining to me why he was upset at Matt.
"He and I were just talking with another woman," explained Matt after the exchange. "And I think they're more on the liberal interventionist side of the economic policies — at least in terms of their opinions. And I was like saying, 'Look, I'm personally against Keynesianism. Because I think Keynes is all about government spending. And I don't believe government is a good allocator of spending.'"
This position apparently infuriated Levy. When I approached Levy and Matt, Matt was explaining to Levy that the two of them were on the same side. Levy responded, "You don't read well."
I decided to intervene. I merely wanted to know what Matt was misrepresenting. The results can be listened to below:
About Edward Champion
Edward Champion is the Managing Editor of Reluctant Habits.
http://www.edrants.com/occupy-wall-street-nine-conversations-and-a-protest-song/
Posted by Ed Mortimer in Uncategorized.	Tagged: biofuel, books, coal, computers, corporate, economics, education, environment, ethics, food, forest, global, health, history, indigenous, justice, oil, pesticide, philosophy, politics, resources, rights, sociology, soil, solar, sovereignty, waste, water.	1 comment
Posted 26 September 2011, by Akinyi Princess of K'Orinda-Yimbo, Tom Wilt News, tomwilt.com
The global food crisis of 2007/2008 that triggered riots from Cape to Cairo and from Senegal to Haiti made governments and their agriculturally-engaged companies to get on the saddle and gallop – with their thinking caps on. Export tariffs were slapped on staple food crops to minimise how much could be sold outside their countries. In my book – Darkest Europe and Africa's Nightmare: A Critical Observation of Neighbouring Continents, I mentioned, rather apocalyptically, that if we Africans don't take care then the outside world will turn our continent into "a timber plantation." This is now happening, but on a worst-case scenario. Africans are being colonised again and this time not with the power of weapons but through Africans themselves selling their continent willingly. The 99- and 999-year lease – a remnant of colonialists – surely cannot fool anybody. This is equivalent to a full century and/or full millennium which translates into three and a half to thirty-four consecutive generations of Africans.
Africans are selling the one natural resource they can't afford to sell – their land. Especially arable land. In Antananarivo, Madagascar, earlier in 2009, President Ravalomanana's government was overthrown by angry urban poor who were already spending two thirds of their income to feed themselves ever since the 2008 massive rise in global prices for commodities like rice and wheat. This was not just because of his own private jet bought from a member of the Disney family for his own use with public funds – no. President Ravalomanana was leasing 1.3 hectares (half the size of Belgium and half of Madagascar's arable land) to South Korea's Daewoo for 99 years to grow maize and palm oil and send all harvests during this period back home to feed South Koreans. Daewoo paid nothing: they PROMISED to improve the island's infra structure. And of course they would provide "jobs for the citizens of Madagascar by farming it, which is good for Madagascar" (read cheap slave labour). As usual the public was kept in the dark. Until the news was leaked by London's Financial Times. This is the first government in the world to be toppled by angry mobs and the military for "land-grabbing". Kudos to the people.
There are more than 100 similar land-grabs globally, since September 2008, where huge tracts of farmland are bought up by wealthy countries as well international corporations. Mark Weston, Britain's international development policy consultant does the colourful canvas thus: "Imagine if China, following a brief negotiation with a British government desperate for foreign cash after the collapse of the economy, bought up the whole of Wales, replaced most of its inhabitants with Chinese workers, turned the entire country into an enormous rice field and sent all the rice produced there for the next 99 years back to China… Imagine that neither the evicted Welch nor the rest of the British public knew what they were getting in return for this, having to content themselves with vague promises that the new landlords would upgrade a few ports and create jobs for the local people.
"Then, imagine that, after a few years – and bearing in mind that recession and the plummeting pound have already made it difficult for the UK to buy food from abroad – an oil-price spike or an environmental disaster in one of the world's big grain-producing nations drives global food prices sharply upwards and beyond the reach of many Britons. While the Chinese next door in Wales continue sending rice back to China, the starving British look helplessly on, ruing the day their government sold off half their arable land. Some of them plot the violent recapture of the Welch valley."
This – huge tracts of land being "sold" to foreigners for "promises" – is what is happening all over Africa this very minute. Except that in my experience not many Africans are that good at organising themselves as a unified force to recapture their valley. They would either fall upon each other with machetes for a few grains some "kind" soul dropped them from the air, or they'd turn into a trillion factions with double the number of "generals".
Even the great pope of the free market, Financial Times, has used words like "rapacious" for the likes of Daewoo, warning that it was the most "brazen example of a wider phenomenon" where rich nations are trotting the globe buying up the natural resources of poor countries. The new colonialism is vast in Africa, with the buyers being wealthy countries unable to grow their own food. The Arabs are back fleeing their barren sands to turn Africa into their granary like they did one and a half millennia ago (in Egypt at the time). The Gulf states are in the lead in this new investment. Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, controlling between them 45% of the world's oil, are snatching AGRICULTURAL LAND in Egypt, Ethiopia, Cameroon, Zambia, Uganda, but also in Cambodia, Brazil, Kazakhstan, Ukraine and Russia. South Korea has grabbed a staggering 960,000 hectares in Sudan, the largest country in Africa, where at least 6 other rich countries are said to have secured large land-holding – and precisely where the local population are among the hungriest and least secure in the world. The Saudis are negotiating 500,000 hectares (not acres) in Tanzania. Companies for the United Arab Emirates have snapped up 324,000 hectares in Pakistan. Highly populated countries like China, South Korea and India have acquired swathes of African farmland to produce food for export. India recently lowered tariffs for Ethiopian commodities that could enter India after the Indian government lent money to 80 Indian companies to buy 350,000 hectares of farmland in Africa, particularly huge tracts in Kenya and Ethiopia. And this is the same Kenya where, in the year 2008, the locals of African descent were chopping each other's limbs off, being shot by their own police and armed forces and burning innocent men, women and children locked up in churches – because of the land tenure! This is the Kenya where the Gallmanns, Briatores and Bransons and many others own private ranches the size of 3 Cypruses, where Prince William and his girlfriend spend a bit of "Hollywood in the bush" once or so a year – the rest of the time, all the above celebrities have their small states looked after by their private property "my Africans" – while 75% of Afro-Kenyans have no scratch of land to plant a tomato!
Kenya made a deal with Qatar, an Arab land with only 1% arable land, to acquire 40,000 hectares of land to grow food. A third of Kenya's population was facing food shortages and President Kibaki had no better answer for hungry Kenyans opposing the deal but to impose a state of emergency and then turn around to appeal for international food relief. Where is the logic here, by the bony ancients? If Qatar can grow food on Kenyan soil to feed Qataris, why can't Kenya grow food in Kenya to feed Kenyans? The land offered to Qatar is in the fertile Tana River delta with an abundance of fresh water. Some 150,000 Kenyan farming and pastoralist families for whom the land is communal graze their 60,000 cattle there. It is no wonder that, supported by opposition activists and environmentalists fearing the destruction of a pristine ecosystem of mangrove swamps, savannah and forests, the people now threaten armed resistance. When that happens, the rest of the world will only report about "warring African tribes", not a group of people fighting to keep their land and ecosystem instead of allowing it delivered to Qatari farmers to feed their Arabs.
Next door in Uganda, 400 small farmers comprising a total of 2,000 people, were driven out (using violence through the Ugandan army) of their land in 2001 to make room for the German coffee grower Neumann Kaffee Gruppe. This was against the OECD guidelines for multinational concerns. On 24th August 2001, the concern's boss, Michael R Neumann, together with President Museveni inaugurated the plantation. The people who were driven off their land can since then neither feed themselves adequately nor pay school fees for their children. This is another in a long line of violations of social human rights perpetrated by yet another African so-called leader against his own citizens. Are Africans surprised when the rest of the world view them as some strange pathogens? Who is polishing the patina of Africa's "bad image"?
Mozambique has signed a $ 2bn deal to give 10,000 Chinese "settlers" land in return for $ 3m in military aid from Beijing. Right. Take the land for 99- or 999-year lease and settle down while you give the starving Mozambicans both reason and means to kill each other off, leaving Mozambique a Chinese province. Food is a weapon is a weapon is a weapon….
But the list is long. The British investor Cru Investment Management has grabbed tracts of the fruitful agricultural land in dirt poor Malawi. US investment banker Philippe Heilberg, assisted by a "warlord", acquired 4,000 square kilometres of land in southern Sudan. Congo-Brazzaville is allegedly selling 10 million hectares to Euroancestral South Africans to farm. Multinational finance concerns such as Deutsche Bank, Blackstone Group, Goldman & Sachs and Dexion Capital all have invested in African agricultural land. The World Bank and International Finance Corporation are engaged in "the development of agro-business" big time in Africa and other developing countries ever since the food crisis of 2008, pumping billions to agro-concerns to ensure food production in Africa for their own countries. All such investors no longer want to depend on speculators, they want to eliminate middlemen and take control themselves. Cru Investment spokesman, Duncan Parker maintains, "Africa has what it takes to be one of the leading food producers worldwide. Her potential in workers is big, her soil productive and there's plenty of sun and water."
Is the man not talking about the same Africa whose people are starving and dying of diseases that could be avoided by mere clean drinking water?
And Philippe Heilberg told the US media that whatever political and legal risks he is taking in Africa at the moment will pay most lucratively because he expects several African states in the coming years to simply fall apart. Can Africans legitimately blame Heilberg for his arrogance and indifference? Besides, when one listens between the words, there is always a plan-in-motion behind such blatant utterances. Africans may well be the next Palestinians – pariahs in their own land.
And now food is not the only thing that African land is needed for. Think of the recent EU Desertec cordoning off the Sahara for solar energy for Europe. In the Desertec Concept are the words:
In the upcoming decades, several global developments will create new challenges for mankind. We will be confronted with problems and obstacles such as climate change, population growth beyond earth's capacity, and an increase in demand for energy and water caused by a strive for prosperity and expansion.The DESERTEC Concept provides a way to solve these challenges.
The question is, SOLVE THEM FOR WHO? Certainly not for Africans. And how does this concept work?
It works just like a coal steam power plant, with the difference that concentrated solar power is used for steam production, instead of coal. Large mirrors are positioned in such a way that they reflect and concentrate the sunlight onto a certain point much like capturing sunlight through a magnifying lens. A major advantage of this technology is that a part of the sun's heat can be collected in heat storage tanks during the day and then run through steam circuits at night or specifically during peak hours, depending on the demand. With this technology, renewable and controlled energy can be provided according to the demand of the electricity grid.
Yet Africans, fifty years down independence road and with the technology already existing and sitting their for a price they can more than afford, cannot position large mirrors in such a way that they reflect and concentrate the abundant African sunlight like capturing sunlight through a magnifying lens! Africans have had the Sahara forever – but they just couldn't come up with the idea of getting some solar energy from this vast desert. No idea from the whole of Sunny Africa? Yes they could, if Africans start thinking of themselves as worthwhile human beings too, and join forces to keep what is theirs theirs. Otherwise Africans might as well follow the butcher meekly to the slaughter house because that's where they're going to end up – in "native reserves" dying off as a people until the few Africans left are put in museums like they were once the main attraction in circuses all over the West in the 18th through early 20th centuries.
German, British and American companies have also bought land in Tanzania and Ethiopia to grow biofuels. Ethiopia – the byword for famine – argues that since it imports oil, biofuels will set off price fluctuations and dependency on oil! What about the environmental impact – 75% of the land allocated to the foreign biofuel firms are forested and these forests will have to be chopped off! The Chinese chopstick manufacturers are delighted.
A Norwegian biofuel company will create "the largest jatropha plantation in the world" by deforesting vast tracts of land in northern Ghana. The company was back to darkest Europe when it flagrantly cheated an illiterate chief to sign 38,000 hectares with his thumbprint. Jatropha is a non-too-demanding plant that produces oily seeds from which biodiesel can be made.
This entire new scramble for poor countries' land is the result of the food crisis of 2007-2008 when the price of wheat, rice and other cereals skyrocketed across the globe. When the food-grower countries applied tariffs to minimize the amount of staple crops that left their countries, the supply was further tightened resulting in prices shooting further up. It was a policy-created scarcity rather than the true-and-tried traditional supply and demand. A situation arose where rich countries reliant on massive food imports put on their thinking caps. They began to put the fundamentals of global trade (that each country should concentrate on its best product and then trade it) under the microscope. The Gulf states, among other rich countries, with their unimaginable amounts of cash from trading oil suddenly realised you can't eat cash dipped in oil. Nor can you gnaw on a Rolls-Royce. Or feed your children computer chips. The sheikhs & associates saw that the costs of food imports had doubled in five years. The future boded for worse – both regional and global markets were no longer reliable.
The perfect answer was to own agricultural land. "Control of foreign farmland", writes Paul Vallely, "would not only secure food supplies, it would eliminate the cut taken by middlemen and reduce food-import bills by more than 20 percent. And the benefits could only increase." Because the fundamental conditions that had ushered in the worldwide food crisis remain unchanged and could easily get worse.
According to the UN the world population will double by 2050. To grow enough food to feed 9bn people choke the planet. So, long term strategies are the right response. When the Prime Minister Taro of Japan (the world's largest food importer) asked the G8 leaders in Italy: "Is the current food crisis just another market vagary?" he answered his own question: "Evidence suggests not; we are undergoing a transition to a new equilibrium, reflecting a new economic, climatic, demographic and ecological reality."
Not that the market is asleep either. The cost of land is rising rapidly, making the irresponsible but insatiable African leaders salivate. And we Africans sit with our hands folded on our laps, waiting for some force of nature to come to our rescue. Many are not even aware of the fact that their ancestral land is being offered for re-colonisation, because their governments are big boys who believe informing their citizens of what is going on puts the boys in a subservient position. These are the chaps in this world who are unaware that they are servants of their people.
The food and financial crises combined have made agricultural farmland the new strategic asset. Veteran speculator Jim Rogers, in league with fellow veterans like Lord Jacob Rothschild, said in July 2009: "I'm convinced that farmland is going to be one of the best investments of our time." This should actually augur well for Africa because there is land in abundance in the continent, and the agricultural sector – Africa's backbone – is in need of capital and technology. A win-win situation. Except that Africans are auctioning their continent's most sacred possession for nought and a staggering 99- or 999-year lease (depending on which salivating leader is dealing with whom. There are leaders out there offering the old colonial 999-year lease). That interprets into three and a half to thirty-four generations of Africans – left in limbo. Or as eventual specimens in museums of the wealthy.
Producing enough food to feed 9bn people in 2050 will crush the planet, denuding forests and drainage rivers and ruining arable land. In Copenhagen, capital saw to it that their lackeys, known as governments the world over, treated climate change as Father Christmas – a fairy tale. But, to capital's delight, oil prices continue to rise in direct relation to fertilizer and tractor fuel – hence biofuels to further cut the land that would be available for food crops. The horrors are ahead because the fat harvest times are over – there won't be enough food for the table even for the filthy rich – unless they can afford €3m a day residency in outer space. The market economy will this time – as always – not provide for all and sundry as falsely proclaimed. Land prices have jumped from 15% to 30% globally.
After the financial crisis in mortgage-based derivatives, agricultural land is the new strategic asset. An asset that nobody can manufacture or erect, and then sell. Once given away, it is gone and there's no replica or spare parts, Africans.
Marginally seen, it could be a good thing for African countries. Apart from the staggering and varied natural resources, some of which cannot be found anywhere on the planet, land, as already said, is what Africans have in plenty. All Africa needs is capital to develop her agriculture. A mammoth share of this capital is ferreted out of the continent by the handful few wrongly-wired Africans to develop economies NOT AFRICAN. The Big Curse for which Africans only have themselves to blame. The rest of the world call it capital flight – as if this staggering amount of money simply made up its mind to take to the air and fly to the West – the mad terminologies of our times where human beings call their own dead "collateral damages".
The financial global players who brought on the crisis are the very same ones now roaming the agricultural landscape and grabbing chunks of it. These land deals should bring investments, technology and know-how to local farmers, reduce dependency on food aid and similar maladies. They should provide infrastructure that goes beyond roads leading from the foreign leaseholder's farms to the port that transport 100% of their harvests back to their own countries. The deals should enable the building of schools and health centres for the whole community. They should provide enough taxes to the government for more development – assuming African governments would at last invest in their own countries and people instead of castles and numbered accounts overseas. African so-called leaders have some inborn dread of educated and healthy citizens. Instead of recognising the greatest potential to their nations of human resources they see adversaries.
Then there is the problem of monoculture in growing plantation of large-scale food crops dependent of huge amounts of pesticides and fertilisers. This would ruin the long-term sustainability of tropical soils not suited to intensive cultivation, as well as damage the local water table. Soil erosion will occur and ruin long-term land fertility. The diversity of plants, animals and insect life will be drastically threatened while the intensive usage of agrochemicals bring in water-quality maladies. In addition the irrigation of the foreign investors' plantations would take water away from the indigenous users. So these grabs are in effect water grabs – the most valuable part of these deals – instead of land grabs, since once you own the land you own the water beneath it.
The chief executive of Nestlé, Peter Brabeck-Letmathe puts it this way: "Water withdrawal for agriculture continue to increase rapidly. In some of the most fertile regions of the world (America, southern Europe, northern India, north-eastern China), over-use of water, mainly for agriculture, is leading to sinking water tables. Groundwater is being withdrawn, no longer as a buffer over the year but in a structural way, mainly because water is seen as a free good."
It is not. The average person in the world uses 3,000-6,000 litres of water daily, less than a tenth of which is used for hygiene or manufacturing. The rest goes to farming. Meat-eating has increased and meat requires ten times more water per calorie than plants. The thirstiest products on earth are biofuels. To grow Soya for one litre of biodiesel takes up to 9,100 litres of water and up to 4,000 litres to transform corn into bioethanol. Brabeck-Letmathe predicts, "Under the present conditions and with the way water is being managed, we will run out of water long before we run out of fuel." India and the USA combined produce a third of the world's cereals, but Frank Rijsberman of the International Water Management Institute cautions, "we could be facing annual losses equivalent to the grain crops" of India and the USA.
The land grabs are now a pandemic. As with natural resources in Africa, there is no transparency and foreign governments and multinationals engaged in bribes have no great fear of prosecution in poor countries. In their own wealthy countries, at least somebody may publicly cry foul or demonstrate with huge placards in the streets without fearing being shot down by the police or armed forces.
In Africa land rights are not just written, they also exist through custom and practice. There should indeed be (if nothing else) compulsory sharing of benefits such as construction of schools and health centres. Short leases, or better still contract farming, would leave smallholders in control of their land and contract to investors. On the other hand the investors must never have the right to export entire harvests especially during a food crisis in the host country.
Land-grabs represent a serious violation of the human right to food. Humankind's most primordial fight was over food. It is food that makes the fittest who then survives. I therefore call to all Africans, Continental and Diaspora, and all friends and fans of Africa, to join me in this fight by going to my web site – www.akinyi-princess.de – and signing in the with both your name, the words and your valid email address. In addition, please spread the word to your friends, families, social network chums and pals, chat room and forum acquaintances around the globe to join us in the fight. I need at least 25,000 authentic email "signatures" to enable me to write a petition to the AU Commissioner in Addis Ababa demanding that African governments may not simply "negotiate" land grab deals with foreign governments and multinationals without prior consultations with their respective citizens in the form of a referendum. The petition is now being professionally drafted and will be posted in my web site ASAP.
A graduate journalist – the London Schools of Journalism as well as an economics graduate of the London School of Economics. Been writing as a freelance journalist since 1980, columnist with various dailies and monthly magazines in Africa and Europe. Gives lectures and seminars in various German universities, colleges and high schools on topics ranging from socio-economy in Africa, Business English, African literature and the socio-ethnological conflicts in the traditions of Africans and the West in general. Written and published articles, papers, novels in Engish and German. Her non-fiction book "Darkest Europe and Africa's Nightmare: A critical Observation of the Neighbour Continents" published in 2008 by a New York publisher. Full CV – www.akinyi-princess.de. More works as yet unpublished and a children's fantasy/thriller.
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The courageous and honorable protests underway in Wall Street should serve to bring this calamity to public attention, and to lead to dedicated efforts to overcome it and set the society on a more healthy course.
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This article was written for the Creative Industries Federation's Brexit Conference on 15 March 2018, which FleishmanHillard Fishburn was delighted to sponsor. Tim Snowball spoke at the event in a session focused on how businesses are preparing for Brexit.
In 1969, the Swiss psychiatrist Elisabeth Kübler-Ross published her famous work on the five stages of grief.
Many in the creative industries might recognise the first four stages in their own reaction to the vote for Brexit: denial – anger – bargaining – depression.
But not all of us have so far felt much rush to embrace the fifth stage of this grieving process: acceptance.
Indeed, some are still looking for a way back, to a softer Brexit or a second referendum. Others will feel gloomy about what being cut off from EU funding, talent or common regulation means for the sector. Or, more profoundly, what the vote for Brexit says about our culture.
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Accept or not the direction of travel we appear to have taken as a nation, what is still very apparent is that the destination remains uncertain. An optimist might suggest that this leaves a lot to play for.
Let's be clear, it doesn't make you a Brexiteer to seek to promote Britain as a global hub for creativity. A strengthened centre for film making, for theatre, for design, for media, for computer gaming, for art and for music. A home for talent, a centre of innovation, a force for change.
It is desirable to look forward and plan for the future, and that can start now.
So, if Brexit means we need to work harder to ensure that the world's most creative talent is able to come and work here, our job now must be to campaign for a skilled visa category that guarantees this future. After all, it's not actually Brexit that is putting arbitrary limits on immigration.
If Brexit means we need to improve the domestic creative skills pipeline, well let's fight for the renewed importance of creative education in the curriculum and apprenticeships that meet the needs of the industry. After all, it wasn't Brexit that lies behind the design of these policies.
If Brexit means a funding gap is emerging, we need to be bold in making a case for future funding from the Brexit dividend. After all, nowhere on that infamous bus did it say "£350m a week for the arts".
And if Brexit means we need to work harder to project Britain as a place to come, to be creative, to start and grow creative businesses, to challenge the image that has too often been created for us of late, then, whether at "acceptance" stage or not, we must rise to that challenge together.


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Die Liste der Truppenteile der Fernspähtruppe des Heeres der Bundeswehr enthält alle Einheiten der Fernspähtruppe der Bundeswehr sowie eine kurze Übersicht über ihren Aufstellungszeitpunkt, Stationierungsorte, Unterstellung und über ihre Auflösung oder Umbenennung. Die Truppengattung ist mittlerweile in der Heeresaufklärungstruppe aufgegangen, einzelne Verbände der ehemaligen Truppe innerhalb dieser neuen Truppengattung aber noch aktiv, siehe dazu Liste der Heeresaufklärungsverbände der Bundeswehr. Die Truppengattung war eine der kleinsten der Bundeswehr und nicht immer eigenständig, sondern gehörte zeitweise zur Infanterie und zu den Panzeraufklärern, bevor sie als eigenständige Truppengattung zu den Führungstruppen gehörte. Heute ist sie im KSK und den Aufklärungszügen der Fallschirmjäger aufgegangen.

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Siehe auch hier für das Abkürzungsverzeichnis.

Kompanien
Im Heer wurde für jedes der drei ursprünglichen Korps eine Fernspähkompanie aufgestellt. Ihre Nummer ergab sich direkt aus dem übergeordneten Korps und zwei Nullen als Endziffer. Die Fernspähkompanie 100 war also truppendienstlich dem I. Korps unterstellt. Zur Ausbildung bzw. im Frieden unterstanden die Kompanien aber auch anderen Verbänden (meist Panzeraufklärungsbataillone) oder Schulen. Als die Korps aufgelöst wurden und die verbleibenden Fernspähkompanien anderen Verbänden unterstellt wurden, war man bereits im gesamten Heer von einer stringenten Nummerierungskonvention abgewichen. Aus Tradition behielten die Kompanien der Fernspäher daher auch bei Unterstellungswechseln ihre Nummer bei, die ihre Herkunft erahnen ließ. Das Fernspähausbildungszentrum 900 erhielt seine Nummerierung als direkt dem Bundesministerium der Verteidigung zugeordnete Einrichtung.

Folgende Verbände wurden aufgestellt:

Am 26. Oktober 2011 stellte Bundesverteidigungsminister Thomas de Maizière (CDU) im Bundeskabinett das Stationierungskonzept 2011 vor, nach dem die Fernspählehrkompanie 200 aufgelöst wird.

Ausbildungseinrichtungen
Die Ausbildungseinrichtung der Fernspäher war zu Anfang der Fernspähausbildungszentrum 900, später die Internationale Fernspähschule. Heute wird die Ausbildung teils vom Ausbildungszentrum Heeresaufklärungstruppe, teils vom Ausbildungszentrum Spezielle Operationen geleistet.

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I grew up as a boy watching my mother be abused by my Step-Father. I was afraid of him because he was bigger and stronger than me, but what hurt the most beside the pain of watching her be repeatedly beaten, was the shame I felt for not standing up for her. One day when I was big enough and strong enough, on my 16th Birthday, I came home to the scene of my Step-Father choking my Mother. Something inside me snapped and I fought him off of her and got him to the ground, held him there, and called the police. He was arrested and I thought that was it, that I finally stood up for my Mom and now she would be safe. But that was not the end of it, because she bailed him out, and refused to press charges, and forgave him, and we as a family entered in to the next round of abuse. What I learned was that it would not be over until she as a woman knew in her heart, that she did not deserve to be treated like this, that she was worth more than that. I learned that asking for respect from others is intimately related to self-respect.
Years later when I was raising my four daughters and teaching them martial arts so that they could protect themselves, I realized that even the martial arts skills they were learning would not protect them unless they knew in their hearts that they were special, beautiful, smart, and strong. They must also know that they do not deserve to be disrespected or abused by anyone, and they have every right to stand up for themselves, by setting firm boundaries to protect themselves.
The idea for Girl Power was born! What I was sharing with my daughters became a passion to share with all girls! To teach life saving skills of martial arts and plant the seeds of worthiness and self-respect in the hearts of girls as a way of preventing abuse, and awakening the fabulous and power filled lives that they deserve to live.
Girl Power is fulfilling that original vision, but has become so much more! In Girl Power, girls learn self-respect, self-defense, self-confidence, and self-expression! Girl Power classes are fun, passionate, and joyful. We celebrate life, while giving each other strength and courage to navigate the difficulties that we all face. We ask questions about love, kindness, respect, integrity, responsibility, and the courage to be who you truly are and give the gift that only you have to give the world!
We ask girls these questions and they go into their hearts for the answers. The answers are amazing, beautiful, and wise! We call them the treasures of the heart and teach that our community becomes richer when we share these gems. It also gives the girls a chance to listen to their own words, and know that there is a guidance they can trust, living within them. We teach our students to do what they know in their heart is right, to know their values and to live by them.
This is done in a fun and uplifting atmosphere with music, humor, games, and a nurturing of creativity and self expression, that brings out the beauty of Kung Fu training and puts the art back in martial arts!


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Deborah began quilting with a Eleanor Burns books, but soon moved to appliqué. She loves working w/ simple shapes (i.e. bowl, house, chair) in her work. She is a list maker, which led to her to develop the workbook Head, Heart and Hands. The workbook helps quilters to think about and develop their work during the building process. Alex and Ricky look at her quilts.
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Ricky and Deborah are huge fans of the musical Hamilton. They share fun stories and discuss why the musical has had such a big impact on them.
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Love Deborah's demo. How does she finish her quilts? Are the edges faced , bound or other?
why would I be out of time when I go to comment when I am still trying to watch the show?
Thank you so much for the show featuring Deborah Boschert. She was very generous to share so much information about her design principles. Please bring her back. Can't wait to receive her collage book & workbook!
The waste made from sequins is called Punchenella and is wonderful to use on Christmas trees and wreaths.
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I really enjoyed this show. I plan to purchase Deborah's book and appreciated seeing the antique quilts. Wonder if Ricky or Alex purchased one.


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Council Candidates condemn RSWA lawsuit
By David McNair | dave@readthehook.com
Published online 9:47pm Thursday Oct 8th, 2009
and in print issue #0841 dated Thursday Oct 15th, 2009
Independent City Council candidate Bob Fenwick called on Mayor Dave Norris to "publicly repudiate" the RSWA's $20 million lawsuit against Peter Van der Linde.
FILE PHOTO BY HAWES SPENCER
While our elected officials continue to support the Rivanna Solid Waste Authority's $20 million RICO lawsuit against recycling entrepreneur Peter Van der Linde, two candidates seeking office are now speaking out against it.
Wednesday night, at the Free Enterprise Forum's candidate forum at Burley Middle School, Independent City Council candidate Bob Fenwick, who says he is "appalled" by the lawsuit, called out Charlottesville Mayor Dave Norris on the issue. While the Hook was not present at the forum, Fenwick summarized his statements after the meeting.
"As a citizen of the City of Charlottesville and not as a candidate I'm calling on Mayor Dave Norris tonight to strongly and publicly repudiate this lawsuit," Fenwick said. " And I don't want to hear any baloney about the Rivanna Water and Sewer Authority being an independent agency or 'I can't comment because this matter is in litigation'."
Norris has refused to comment specifically on the lawsuit, calling it "inappropriate" to do so. Other leaders, however, have expressed their support, including County supe Ken Boyd and Councilor David Brown, who, in the interest of greater transparency, were appointed to the RSWA's Board in April.
Brown, according to an email obtained by the Hook, says that he believes that Van der Linde is not being truthful, and therefore supports the lawsuit.
And Boyd, during a recent call-in to Rob Schilling's radio show, criticized the assumption that the RSWA is suing Van der Linde to shut him down, insisting that the lawsuit has "absolutely nothing" to do with the RSWA's current survival plan–privatizing the Ivy transfer station–which recently involved a discussion on adopting a flow control ordinance, which would essentially give the Authority monopoly control over trash collection and put Van der Linde out of business.
"They are two entirely separate items," Boyd said, pointing out that the lawsuit concerns events that happened before Van der Linde opened his $11 million recycling facility.
However, Fenwick and Democratic City Council candidate Kristen Szakos don't appear to believe that. Earlier this week, Szakos, who mentions that her father-in-law was a private trash hauler who was put out of business by city government in Pennsylvania, told the Hook that she was "very concerned" about the way Mr. Van der Linde has been treated by the RSWA.
"His innovative, comprehensive approach to recycling is just the sort of thing we should be encouraging, not crushing," she said.
"If the city has information justifying this lawsuit, release it," Fenwick continued. " I do not want my tax money or my water fees to go to attacking this private enterprise. And when Dave Norris repudiates this lawsuit the Free Enterprise Forum should be standing right next to him. Is the Free Enterprise Forum for free enterprise or not? How can the city call itself 'business friendly' with an action such as this?"
The Free Enterprise Forum's executive director Neil Williamson declined to respond to Fenwick's comments, saying "we do not have any comment on any ongoing RSWA litigation." However, Williamson did have plenty to say about the RSWA's flow control discussion on Coy Barefoot's radio show yesterday, reporting that RSWA director Tom Frederick had appeared before the County Supes to explain that a flow control ordinance was not presently being pursued.
Asked to respond to Fenwick, Norris did not speak directly about the lawsuit or Fenwick, choosing instead to tout the city's expansion of its recycling programs in the last three years–but he did express support for collaborating with Van der Linde.
"I believe I am the only City Council candidate who has toured Mr. Van der Linde's facility in Zion's Crossroads," said Norris, " and I have spoken repeatedly since then of the exciting opportunities that could be available to broaden our region's recycling efforts by collaborating with an existing, privately-run Materials Recovery Facility rather than RWSA starting one of its own."
Waste story archives
October 18, 2009–Blow to the flow? RSWA, Boyd distancing from monopoly talk
October 1, 2009–Lawyers, Trash, and Money
September 28, 2009–Flow blow: Wasteworks may seek trash monopoly
August 17, 2009–Trash talkin': Waste war could decide the future
August 17, 2009–Don Van der Linde? Wasteworks whacks recycler with RICO
May 29, 2009–Recycle this! Van der Linde steps up tone
May 19, 2009–Dire words for Waste Authority
April 20, 2009–Wasted revenue? Authority realized in 2005 station didn't track origins
April 2, 2009–What a Waste: Is the trash Authority going obsolete?
July 17, 2008–Single-streamin': Why not try private sector recycling machine?
February 14, 2008–Coming soon! van der Linde's amazing recycling machine
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TJ October 9th, 2009 | 7:51am
Where is the evidence against this re-cycler ? All I've heard is the testimony of a felon. This is taxpayer dollars being used in this suit and I want it stopped. Time for a teaparty ? Set the time and place I'll be there.
cookieJar October 9th, 2009 | 12:06am
I'm liking him more with every public statement he makes.
mike October 9th, 2009 | 2:02pm
Thanks CvE. My calendar is marked. btw-I meant preferably above. This d@#n keyboard keeps sending what I type and not what I mean. Getting a new one soon though to fix that
forum info for anyone else interested:
10/21/2009	7pm
Alliance of Neighborhoods: City Council Candidate Forum	City Hall, City Council Chambers
The Alliance of Neighborhoods is hosting a City Council candidate forum.
mike October 9th, 2009 | 12:23pm
I saw mention of a candidate forum in the comments for another topic recently. Does anyone know if there are more coming? Also, who sponsors them and how are they structured? I have a question or two that I'd like to ask about all of this and I'd like to address it to the candidates in person, preferable when they have to answer in public.
Cville Eye October 9th, 2009 | 12:39pm
@Mike check out the link to Cvilletomorrow's blog at http://cvilletomorrow.typepad.com/ Look in the left sidebar under "Upcoming Events from Charlottesville Tomorrow's Calendar"
Cville Eye October 9th, 2009 | 8:57am
Maybe RWSA and RSWA have the mentality of a felon. RICO? Federal charges? It's clear who they're after with a hammer. Frederick and Krueger ($515/hr-YMCA) are the people the community must keep its eye on. Our elected officials do know how.
The Schilling Show October 9th, 2009 | 9:34am
Great reporting, Dave.
And read additional analysis on RSWA's everchanging moods regarding flow control on The Schilling Show blog.
Cville Eye October 9th, 2009 | 11:35am
Notice the County did not insist that its students be able to play after school. Bob Fenwick seems to mix analysis and common sense in his decision-making process and seems to appreciate reason-based decisions rather than emotion-based decisions. What a breath of fresh air. I wonder what time does he have his Saturday morning press conferences on the Mall?
city resident October 9th, 2009 | 6:57am
This is the man. The board's of the RWSA and RSWA are running amok over city residents . We need a strong leader to stop them and Fenwick is the man.
Austro October 9th, 2009 | 11:22am
Fenwick just hit another HR out of McIntire long field with that comment about Norris.
Yes, he did. He probably remembered that Norris in the mode of Norrishood just about rammed that YMCA facility's location down people's throats. His main argument at the time was that the location was perfect for students at CHS to walk to after school. Instead of encouraging them to play after school, one would think that he would be encouraging them to go home and study for their SOLs. BTW, is the reason that the City is paying students to work in the summer is because the City wants them playing the rest of the year after school rather than getting a job if they're not inclined to work on their SOLs? Another example of the City's making decisions that are at odds with other "goals" because they lose the big picture. What the heck, the City will be awash with money again next year.


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